Last night, Beyoncé made us all yell out the longest “yaaaasss bish!”
ever when she showed up to the New York screening of her self-titled
visual album in this eye-popping, body-hugging, black mosaic Tom Ford
dress with matching boots from the designer’s Spring 2014 collection. Post up, flawless!

Trading in her blonde wavy hair, the fearless diva went with long,
silky smooth tresses that completed her futuristic look, as she marched
inside the SVA Theatre in New York City. Inside, she held a special
Q&A segment, answering five questions asked by fans via Instagram,
but not before she introduced her project with these words:

This is a project that I didn’t think was possible
actually. I’ve never done anything so brave in my life and the amount of
personal growth from this project is unlike anything that I’ve ever
done. I took all of my insecurities, all of my doubts, all of my fears,
and everything I’ve learned over the last 17 years and applied it to
this project. It’s interesting how motherhood changes you, and it
changes your perspective on life and I took all the things that I wanted
to change about myself, and all the things I wanted to share and I put
it in this record. And I’m proud of it. More than the music, I’m proud
of myself. The biggest message is owning your imperfections, and all the
things that make you interesting because I refuse to allow someone to
put me in anybody’s box.

Catch her Q&A below:

What was the hardest thing to keep the secret about your new album?

Beyoncé: Well, it was many things! Oh my god, it was so hard and I
still every single day, I have gotten on my knees and thanked God that
this happened.

Well, [...] we went through a lot of things to keep it secret and to
keep the surprise because there’s something missing [in music.] It’s
such a joy and it’s something I was able to experience growing up and I
really really wanted to surprise people and for them to really just hear
the art and it not be about the hype and promotion and we actually did
it and it just says so much about my team.

You know, I started my own company, and my father taught me so, so
much, so much! And when I decided to manage myself, it was important
that I didn’t go to some big management company. I felt like I wanted to
follow in the footsteps of Madonna and be a powerhouse and have my own
empire and show other women when you get to this point in your career,
you don’t have to go sign with someone else and share your money, and
your success, you can do it yourself. So I found a team of underdogs, a
team of women, a team of people that no one believed in, and we worked
together and we stayed up all night and we were progressive and we did
not follow the rules and we said, ‘Why can’t we do it?’ and I don’t
think people believed, you know? I said to so many people, ‘I have an
idea to do a visual album,’ and everyone was like ‘Ok.’ And we did it!
And not only did we do it, it’s my company and I’m very proud of that.

What inspired you to be so open with your personal life on
this album compared to your previous albums? Like in the songs “Mine,”
“Partition,” and “Drunk In Love,” what was the story behind it?

Beyoncé: You know, I’ve always been very generous. I’ve always been
very generous on the stage and I took all of my pain, all of my joy and I
used it in my performance, but I’m very private, I’m very respectful
and I think it just took me no longer being someone’s child. Once I
became a mother, I felt like I could tear down those fourth walls and I
just felt like it was time. I completely feel liberated and I felt like I
could no longer create my art for other people, so I just felt like it
was time.

Where were you right when you released your surprise album?

Beyoncé: I just got off the stage. It was 11:30PM once I took off and
I had a glass of wine and my cousin Angie was like, ‘Girl, you
alright?’ Because I was talking to myself, because I was terrified, I
was so scared and I already envisioned like the worst things that could
happen, I’m like, ‘People are going to hate it, why didn’t I say
anything?’ I mean it’s just things that we all go through, it’s just
human, and I was just really nervous because this was a huge risk and
when I landed, I saw it actually live on iTunes and you know you’re just
waiting for the first comment and the next morning…(Crowd exploded in
appease and cheers)

Who is Yonce? Is she like Sasha? Is she an alter ego?

Beyoncé: Well, Dream actually came up with Yonce. We were in the
studio and Justin Timberlake started beating on buckets, so when you
hear the beat, that’s literally a bucket and it was really organic, it
reminded me of being in middle school during lunch breaks when you just
start free styling and so we kept the production. We went back and forth
and I was very adamant about keeping it organic because that whole
feeling is what’s so beautiful about it and Dream started [singing],
‘Yonce all on his mouth like liquor’ and I’m like what does that mean?
But I love it. I think Yonce is Beyonce. Mrs. Carter is Yonce. Sasha
Fierce is Yonce and I’m finally at a place where, as I said earlier, I
don’t have to kind of separate the two anymore. We’re all one. It’s all
pieces of me and just different elements of a personality of a woman
because we are complicated.

Aside from charts and statistics, what would you have hoped
to have achieved with this album when you look back maybe 10 to 20 years
from now?

Beyoncé: This was my first album that – of course I wanted people to
love it and I wanted critics to love it and I want it to be successful,
but my goal was not picking a number one single, my goal was putting
together a body of work and I just wanted to know if people cared about
music because honestly I was at a point where I felt like everything, it
feels the same and what I said in ‘Ghost’–’All this sh*t I do is
boring’– that’s how I felt and if I could not challenge that, then maybe
it was time for me to do something else or develop more artists, which
is something I want to do, but growth and I just hope that I continue to
move forward and challenge myself and I think now that I’ve become a
mother, I just want my legacy to inspire people and I guess that’s the
biggest goal is having happiness and knowing that when people come to my
shows, they can escape all of the madness and leave there feeling like
there’s hope.

i do think now people can't really say Beyonce is robotic and sh*t anymore

she's not afraid to be herself....the lil rachet, the southern belle, the wife, the mom, the girl who likes to have sex, the girl who feels herself, the sister, etc....it's paid off with this album..people like the all around Bey. i guess it took being "30" and becoming a mom to do that

Now, we all know that Beyoncé used to love herself some Target but after the retailer vowed not to carry the queen’s latest album since she let iTunes sell it exclusively for a week, she decided to throw major shade yesterday by high-tailing it right on into Walmart!

Christmas came early for 700 Walmart shoppers in Tewksbury, Massachusetts as Beyoncé rolled in the store and announced she would be footing the first $50 of each shopper’s bill, which cost her about $37,500. She also strolled through the aisles, grabbed some gifts for Blue Ivy, kissed some babies and threw her own #1 album into the cart before checking out with a smile.

What makes all of this even funnier, is that despite Target’s decision to not carry her album in their stores, she’s selling the new LP in 7000 Starbucks across the country, and guess what?? Starbucks is located in most Targets! #BowDown

Catch pics and video of Beyoncé’s surprise Walmart visit below:

Watch this video of Beyoncé’s trip to Walmart

Meanwhile, she shared an image on her Instagram with her album on a table alongside of a Starbucks cup lmao.

And did her fans sneak some copies on Target’s shelves to be funny or is this photo proof that one Target may have had a change of heart?

Also feeling some type of way over the singer’s rollout plan for her album is Amazon. The website has joined Target in not carrying Beyoncé. While fans can purchase the mp3 edition, physical copies are unavailable unless purchased by a third party.

With worldwide album sales at already 1 million, we’re sure Bey ain’t got no worries! According to Billboard, her LP will sell between 260,000-280,000 copies in its second week, which will place her at the top of the charts for the second week in a row.

i do think now people can't really say Beyonce is robotic and sh*t anymore

she's not afraid to be herself....the lil rachet, the southern belle, the wife, the mom, the girl who likes to have sex, the girl who feels herself, the sister, etc....it's paid off with this album..people like the all around Bey. i guess it took being "30" and becoming a mom to do that

yea, i was telling my girl I could never relate to that girl next door sh1t. this woman, this i can relate to

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